Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MISERERE; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE


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First Line: I think the pity of this earthly life
Last Line: I think the pity of this life is love!
Subject(s): Love - Complaints


I THINK the pity of this earthly life
Is love: so sighs a singer of the day,
Whose pensive strain my sympathetic lay
Sadly prolongs. Alas! the endless strife
Of love's sweet law with cold convention's rules;
The loving souls unloved: the perfect mate,
After long years of yearning, found -- too late!
The treason of false friends; the frown of fools;
The fear that baffles bliss in beauty's arms;
The weariness of absence; and the dread
Of lover -- or of love -- untimely dead! --
Musing on these, and all the direful harms
That hapless human hearts are doomed to prove,
I think the pity of this life is love!





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